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EP0715257
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| EP0715257 - Tool for assisting the load balancing of a distributed application [Right-click to bookmark this link] | Status | No opposition filed within time limit Status updated on 19.04.2002 Database last updated on 17.05.2024 | Most recent event Tooltip | 04.01.2008 | Lapse of the patent in a contracting state New state(s): IT | published on 06.02.2008 [2008/06] | Applicant(s) | For all designated states BULL S.A. 68, route de Versailles 78430 Louveciennes / FR | [2001/24] |
| Former [1996/23] | For all designated states BULL S.A. 68, route de Versailles F-78430 Louveciennes / FR | Inventor(s) | 01 /
Sitbon, Gérard 12 rue Gagnée F-94400 Vitry / FR | 02 /
Urbain, François 33 rue Palestro F-75002 Paris / FR | 03 /
Saliba, Thérèse 26 rue du Champ d'avoine F-78190 Montigny Le Bretonneux / FR | [1996/23] | Representative(s) | Denis, Hervé, et al BULL S.A. Département de la Propriété Intellectuelle PC: P4/079 rue Jean Jaurès - BP 68 78340 Les Clayes-sous-Bois / FR | [N/P] |
| Former [2002/12] | Denis, Hervé, et al BULL S.A. PC 58D20, 68, route de Versailles 78434 Louveciennes Cedex / FR | ||
| Former [1999/05] | Colombe, Michel, et al Direction de la Propriété Intellectuelle BULL SA Poste courrier:LV 59C18 68 route de Versailles 78430 Louveciennes / FR | ||
| Former [1996/23] | Gouesmel, Daniel, et al Direction de la Propriété Intellectuelle BULL SA, Poste courrier: LV59C18, 68 route de Versailles F-78430 Louveciennes / FR | Application number, filing date | 95402573.0 | 17.11.1995 | [1996/23] | Priority number, date | FR19940014386 | 30.11.1994 Original published format: FR 9414386 | [1996/23] | Filing language | FR | Procedural language | FR | Publication | Type: | A1 Application with search report | No.: | EP0715257 | Date: | 05.06.1996 | Language: | FR | [1996/23] | Type: | B1 Patent specification | No.: | EP0715257 | Date: | 13.06.2001 | Language: | FR | [2001/24] | Search report(s) | (Supplementary) European search report - dispatched on: | EP | 15.03.1996 | Classification | IPC: | G06F9/46 | [1996/23] | CPC: |
G06F9/5083 (EP,US)
| Designated contracting states | DE, ES, FR, GB, IT, SE [1996/23] | Title | German: | Hilfsgerät zur Lastabgleichung einer verteilten Anwendung | [1996/23] | English: | Tool for assisting the load balancing of a distributed application | [1996/23] | French: | Outil d'aide à la répartition de la charge d'une application répartie | [1996/23] | Examination procedure | 05.12.1996 | Examination requested [1997/05] | 25.08.1999 | Despatch of a communication from the examining division (Time limit: M04) | 04.12.1999 | Reply to a communication from the examining division | 09.10.2000 | Despatch of communication of intention to grant (Approval: Yes) | 11.12.2000 | Communication of intention to grant the patent | 21.03.2001 | Fee for grant paid | 21.03.2001 | Fee for publishing/printing paid | Opposition(s) | 14.03.2002 | No opposition filed within time limit [2002/23] | Fees paid | Renewal fee | 01.12.1997 | Renewal fee patent year 03 | 30.11.1998 | Renewal fee patent year 04 | 30.11.1999 | Renewal fee patent year 05 | 29.11.2000 | Renewal fee patent year 06 |
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| Responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or quality of the data displayed under the link provided lies entirely with the Unified Patent Court. | Lapses during opposition Tooltip | GB | 13.06.2001 | IT | 13.06.2001 | SE | 13.09.2001 | DE | 14.09.2001 | ES | 20.12.2001 | [2008/06] |
| Former [2004/04] | GB | 13.06.2001 | |
| SE | 13.09.2001 | ||
| DE | 14.09.2001 | ||
| ES | 20.12.2001 | ||
| Former [2002/16] | GB | 13.06.2001 | |
| SE | 13.09.2001 | ||
| DE | 14.09.2001 | ||
| Former [2002/15] | SE | 13.09.2001 | |
| DE | 14.09.2001 | ||
| Former [2002/05] | SE | 13.09.2001 | Documents cited: | Search | [XA] - JIAN XU:, "Heuristic Methods for Dynamic Load Balancing in a Message-Passing Multicomputer", JOURNAL OF PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING, DULUTH, MN US, vol. 18, no. 1, doi:doi:10.1006/jpdc.1993.1039, pages 1 - 13, XP000377670 [X] 1,5 * page 2, column L, line 12 - line 24; figure 1 * * page 2, column R, line 33 - page 3, column R, line 36 * * page 4, column L, line 17 - column R, line 6 * * page 5, column L, line 33 - column R, line 9 * [A] 2-4 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jpdc.1993.1039 | [A] - M. THEIMER AET AL.:, "Finding Idle Machines in a Workstation-Based Distibuted System", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, NEW YORK, US, vol. 15, no. 11, pages 1444 - 1458 [A] 1-5 * page 1446, column R, line 52 - page 1447, column L, line 1 * * page 1451, column R, line 15 - page 1452, column L, line 5 * | by applicant | FR19940008764 |